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View Poll Results: How do you get your ebooks? | |||
I buy most of my ebooks |
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214 | 64.85% |
I use P2P to get most of my ebooks |
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87 | 26.36% |
I use P2P to read my ebooks and then buy the good ones (nobody believes this btw.) |
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23 | 6.97% |
I don't read ebooks |
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6 | 1.82% |
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Here is another reason why.....it is common!?
Sea Dragon Heir by Storm Constantine On amazon I can buy the book starting with second hand for £3.42 or brand new for £6.29 including shipping. Now look at this atrocity: at least £15 Now. Please, don't tell me to call them and maybe it is a mistake and maybe they will reduce the price and maybe...it is vendor's problem. If someone wants to stay in business they gotta move their asses in order to meet customer's demand. (I absolutely don't care who is to be blamed Fictionwise (I doubt) or publisher). Not my problem. It applies to any business model. Let's say if I don't/cannot fix costumer's IT problem, they don't care whether I have a headache today or not, they go to a new service provider. Why book selling should be any different? Again, please please don't tell me about taking bread from writer's table, because if I buy a second hand book, the writer will not get a dime. P.S. I am not even talking about the whole series Magravandias. The first book is available as [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader] The second and third as: [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)] Means if I am a honest customer I am stuck between 2 absolutely incompatible platforms/ DRM protections (Mobipocket and Microsoft) or I must resort to yet a third DRM scheme and ebook reader that I have supports it. After that you are surprised that ebook piracy exists? Last edited by astra; 04-05-2009 at 11:42 AM. |
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It might be a technical impossibility: since file transfers are not instantaneous, there'd always be some time when a book (song, vid) would be registered to two different devices, and someone would figure out how to maximize that time to create two copies. However, I suspect that it'd mostly prevent extra copies, especially if it had to be done for each copy, and other transfers were simple. Quote:
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Ebook & other digital entertainment content publishers have decided to claim they have the right to insist on "one purchase, one user," rather than "one purchase, one copy." And because of that ridiculous claim, they're facing casual piracy by people who believe that "give away a copy" is not as wrong as "you can never share or give away what you bought." |
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No, the music industry adjusted by drastically lowering prices for individual songs, and making songs easy and painless to buy. This made it so many people were more willing to pay for music than to go through the hoops of illegally downloading it. And even then, it took them time to get rid of DRM. |
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![]() If they can just make their own copy of your car for themselves - why would you need a security device to stop them stealing it? |
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I wasn't referring to that aspect of it (which I entirely agree with, BTW). I was referring to taosaur's comment that p2p downloads show that someone likes your product, so you should stop trying to protect it and concentrate on making it cheaper. That argument could equally be applied to cars as to music tracks, and I'm afraid that I think it's rather silly
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So I think what taosaur was saying is, concentrate on how it really works, and not on the smoke screen. |
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http://www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/pitt/taxpitt.htm "It was estimated that smuggling exceeded 20% of imports and accounted for half all tea in Britain, creating an obvious loss of revenue. High duties made smuggling profitable, so Pitt decided to reduce duties to make the temptation no longer adequate to the risk. Tea duties, averaging 119%, were reduced to 25%. Duties also were reduced on wines, spirits and tobacco. By 1789, quantity of tea passing through Customs had doubled and in one year (1784-5) the Exchequer got an extra £200,000. By 1792, government revenue had increased by £3 m as a result of legal increased consumption." |
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Nevertheless, any reasonable publisher or retailer should be willing to let you sell the entire account and all the books you've bought with it to some other person. That comes close enough to the "transfer all copies" that is needed to match up with the physical world. A really enlightened publisher will go farther than that! The good folks at Baen have previously approved the following examples:
I note, however, that the folks in question had no legal right to these particular solutions. This is an example of excellent foresight and sound business practice on the part of the publisher, not a "this must be the legal approach" from a copyright PoV. Xenophon |
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Baen are seriously going up in my estimation.
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